Plato Quotes

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Even the gods love jokes.
- Plato

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
- Plato

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.
- Plato

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
- Plato

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Love a grave mental disease.
- Plato

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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
- Plato

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
- Plato

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato

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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.
- Plato

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Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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What I say is that ‘just’ or ‘right’ means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.
- Plato

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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.
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Mathematics is like checkers in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.
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Geometry existed before creation.
- Plato

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